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Rep. John Murtha, Man of the People

A staunch supporter of the Iraq war for years, Rep. John Murtha's shocking reversal yesterday was the result of years of deep introspection and a growing anger over being lied to by the Bush regime. I would have preferred a call for an unconditional surrender of all U.S. forces currently engaged in any non-UN approved acts of aggression, but the square-jawed congressman's weepy, hand-wringing oratory went above and beyond the sort of hopeless defeatism one would normally expect from a battle-hardened Marine. Indeed, the hawkish, flinty-eyed maverick’s demand for an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq truly exemplifies the Marine Corps motto, “RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

Not suprisingly, Dick “Five Deferments” Cheney wasted no time calling this great American hero an unpatriotic coward. The same ChickenDick who had better things to do than kill babies, burn villages, and rape cattle in the fashion of Jingus Khan has the unmitigated gall to disagree with a towering giant of a man who spent 37 years in our beloved, yet Quran-mishandling military.

For shame!

The opinion of those who wore the uniform is above criticism, as long as it is a liberal opinion and decidedly anti-Bush. Ironguts Murka is no spineless yes-man like Zell Miller, though. He’s not a paid stooge like Tommy Franks, who deserves nothing but ridicule and scorn from those who spent Vietnam ingesting large amounts of LSD and running around the Berkeley campus naked. No, it takes a man of true courage to buck conventional wisdom and risk his career by repeating what progressives and Al Qaeda have been saying since the war began: America cannot win, and should retreat while it still has a chance. John Murfa is such a man, and despite his distinguished military career he deserves our respect.

If he threw a couple of jabs at Israel, he’d probably be up for a Nobel as well.

Just saw this on a comment line at Yahoo news. As a progressyve, boy am I depressed:

398-3. Your Democratic Representatives are a bunch of panty-waist cowards. When forced to put up or shut up, they tucked tail and ran and then cried about the "dirty trick" the Republicans were engaging in by forcing a vote. Say what? That's what you arseholes wanted want, right, a vote on this issue of immediate withdrawal.

This also further proof that all the MSM polls about the majority of American people hating Bush and wanting to pull out of Iraq is a bunch of bullshit. If truly a majority of people felt that way and the Democrap Reps actually knew that to be true, they would have unhesitatingly voted on this measure to "bring the boys home." But even the Democrap Reps aren't that stupid and because deep down they don't believe the bullshit polls of the MSM either. Think about it.

You moonbats haven't been lied to by Bush, you've been lied to be your own left-wing blogs, the lamestream media and now your own Democratic representatives who have been blowing nothing but smoke up your arses. Buwahahahahahahahahaha!

Just saw this on a comment line at Yahoo news. As a progressyve, boy am I depressed:

398-3. Your Democratic Representatives are a bunch of panty-waist cowards. When forced to put up or shut up, they tucked tail and ran and then cried about the "dirty trick" the Republicans were engaging in by forcing a vote. Say what? That's what you arseholes wanted want, right, a vote on this issue of immediate withdrawal.

This also further proof that all the MSM polls about the majority of American people hating Bush and wanting to pull out of Iraq is a bunch of bullshit. If truly a majority of people felt that way and the Democrap Reps actually knew that to be true, they would have unhesitatingly voted on this measure to "bring the boys home." But even the Democrap Reps aren't that stupid and because deep down they don't believe the bullshit polls of the MSM either. Think about it.

You moonbats haven't been lied to by Bush, you've been lied to be your own left-wing blogs, the lamestream media and now your own Democratic representatives who have been blowing nothing but smoke up your arses. Buwahahahahahahahahaha!

Just saw this on a comment line at Yahoo news. As a progressyve, boy am I depressed:

398-3. Your Democratic Representatives are a bunch of panty-waist cowards. When forced to put up or shut up, they tucked tail and ran and then cried about the "dirty trick" the Republicans were engaging in by forcing a vote. Say what? That's what you arseholes wanted want, right, a vote on this issue of immediate withdrawal.

This also further proof that all the MSM polls about the majority of American people hating Bush and wanting to pull out of Iraq is a bunch of bullshit. If truly a majority of people felt that way and the Democrap Reps actually knew that to be true, they would have unhesitatingly voted on this measure to "bring the boys home." But even the Democrap Reps aren't that stupid and because deep down they don't believe the bullshit polls of the MSM either. Think about it.

You moonbats haven't been lied to by Bush, you've been lied to be your own left-wing blogs, the lamestream media and now your own Democratic representatives who have been blowing nothing but smoke up your arses. Buwahahahahahahahahaha!

I was so distressed from this news, that I had to buy 10 pairs of Birkenstocks from QVC. That's not KKKapitalism is it? I mean, they're Birkenstocks after all. I'm trying to be a good Progressyve here in light of the enourmous stress of hearing about day in and day out of this illegal,immoral war for oil that we keep fighting. I can't help it that I got so upset, and just had to engage in KKKapitalism. QVC didn't want my bartering. I tried. I offered to come model the Birkenstocks in the buff to help sell them, and they slammed the phone down on me. Such haters! Oh well, I'll wear my Birkenstocks in Mother Sheehans next peace prostest. That should cancel out any bad Karma, I hope to Gaia.

How dare they expect us progressyves to put our money where our mouths are!! And so close to mid-term elections!! What a dirty trick. But hey - what would you expect from KKKarl Rove and company? We have every right to threaten, call for immediate withdrawal of troops - without ever having to actually act or have a plan or anything! Everyone knows what our plan is; it's to run down the president, the military and the war and hope for the best. How dare they expect us to actually act on what we say. We're (proudly) like that kid in school who would push you and say things to you and threaten you. Then if we got punched or called out in public we'd cry and run away. Doesn't that pretty much sum up our agenda? And please don't make fun of Nancy Pelosi. She takes the short bus to the Capitol. She can't help it if she's challenged. Back in her day they didn't have pre-natal tests to see if you were going to have brain damage, and abortion was illegal. She can't help it if she has the IQ of a tree stump.

I'm out raged that I have been saying for weeks that "2000 of our hatefilled-babykilling troops died, can we surrender to our islamic overlords yet"? Now this Murtha guy says the same thing and CCN goes ga-ga over him. WHY NOT ME? Why are they not running puff stories on me? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY.................

Anyone notice Murtha standing up for his convictions in the vote for the House Resolution "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately"?

It's galling, is it not, when someone like Murtha, who, as did I, served in Vietnam when the Democrats did, IN FACT, make us cut and run, can now espouse the identical spineless, pant-wetting, humiliating, hollow and death-dealing tactic as then? What did Murtha say about the abandonment of the South Vietnamese?

No doubt, if we did as they loudly advocate, and Iraq returned to what they now see as "the good old days," they would be the first to scream "Bush Lost The War!" Seems to me that they were among the first, and the most strident, to criticize George H.W. Bush for not pressing the advantage during the first Gulf War, and remove Sadaam.

Simply because Murtha, or any others of us, served in the military, does not make any of us somehow prescient or wonderfully wise about all things military. However, even the most brain-dead leftist should be able to read a one paragraph historical account of what actually happens when you "cut and run," and come away with a vague sense of the consequences.

Then again, integrity, honesty and character are not items that can be used to describe today's left.

We progressyves should be offended that Kindt has tried to out us in this manner. One thing he cannot take away from us is our self-image as heroes in wanting to bring the troops home, dammit! I STILL SUPPORT THE BABY-KILLING WARMONGERING STORMTROOPERS!

Bring the troops home now so we can spit on them - metaphorically or otherwise.

The moral victory of the 398-3 vote is every bit as huge as it's been in all the national elections since the Greedy angl-O Partisans' tantrum of '94. Sure we were routed, but we denied them the shutout. Not only that, but the courage shown by such patriots as Hajji Jim McDermott in voting "present" puts the actual vote more like 398-9. That's a solid majority of 2% of the American people!

It's a disgusting the way the RepgniKKKans ran up the score. True sportsmanship dictates that the majority try to keep the game close by putting in their second string, or at least sitting their starters out.

We've reached the turning point at last. Before Mother Sheehan and John Murtha - 0 votes to end the fascist, hegemonic genocide. After Mother Sheehan and John Murtha don the mantle of moral omnipotence - 3 votes to end the fascist, hegemonic genocide. I don't want to declare victory prematurely and release it as though I were staining a blue dress, but at this pace, the baby-killers will be home raping American women by Christmas.